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Some of Steam’s oldest user accounts are turning 20-years old this week, and Valve is celebrating the anniversary by handing out special digital badges featuring the original Steam colour scheme to the gaming veterans.

Steam first opened its figurative doors all the way back in September 2003, and has since grown into the largest digital PC gaming storefront in the world, which is actively used by tens of millions of players each day.

“In case anyone's curious about the odd colours, that's the colour scheme for the original Steam UI when it first launched,” commented Redditor Penndrachen, referring to the badge's army green colour scheme, which prompted a mixed reaction from players who remembered the platform's earliest days. “I joined in the first six months,” lamented Affectionate-Memory4. “I feel ancient rn.”

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[-] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] funkmunki@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Orange box homies say whatsup.

[-] funkmunki@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yes! I spent entirely too much time in TF2 and Gmod.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Haha yup. I bought it for half life, but figured i would play the other games first. Portal was amazing, so I gave TF2 a shot next.

I didn't play half life for like 2 years.

[-] wowbagger@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Hitting 20 in 5 hours... ;)

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I am at 16 as well. I feel so old now lol

[-] aulin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Same here. I created my account after getting Half-Life 2 for Christmas. Hard to believe that came out in Nov 2004.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
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